Biographies

Mr. David Solomon has been appointed Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2019. He had previously served as co-head of the Investment Banking Division since July 2006. Our Co-COOs are responsible for managing our day-to-day business operations and executing on firmwide priorities. They also serve as key liaisons to our clients and investors. His key performance achievements includes, Successfully transitioned to his new role as President and Co-COO, including by effectively partnering with his co-COO on a number of initiatives to review business practices and drive growth, Demonstrated broad, active and effective engagement with clients across all of our major businesses, Devoted significant attention to the quality of our client franchise while maintaining appropriate attention to reputational care, particularly through his chairmanship of the firm’s Client and Business Standards Committee and Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee., Drove the review and improvement of various people initiatives, including the Managing Director selection process, with an emphasis on key issues related to diversity.

Mr. Lloyd C. Blankfein is Senior Chairman of the Board of the Company. He is no longer Chief Executive Officer of the Company, effective September 30, 2018. Mr. Blankfein is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (June 2006 – Present), President and Chief Operating Officer (January 2004 – June 2006), Vice Chairman with management responsibility for Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC) and Equities Divisions (April 2002 – January 2004), Co-head of FICC (1997 – April 2002) and Head and/or Co-head of the Currency and Commodities Division (1994 – 1997). He has been the Member of Dean’s Advisory Board, Harvard Law School and served as a Member of Dean’s Council, Harvard University. He is Member of Advisory Board, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and Member of Board of Overseers, Weill Medical College Cornell University and Member of Board of Directors, Partnership for New York City.

Mr. John E. Waldron has been appointed President, Chief Operating Officer of the Company effective October 1, 2018. Mr. Waldron has been President and Chief Operating Officer since October 2018. He had previously served as Co-Head of the Investment Banking Division since December 2014. Prior to that he was Global Head of Investment Banking Services/Client Coverage for the Investment Banking Division and had oversight of the Investment Banking Services Leadership Group, and from 2007 to 2009 was Global Co-Head of the Financial Sponsors Group.

Mr. Stephen M. Scherr has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of the Company effective November 5, 2018. As Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Scherr will receive an annual salary of $1,850,000 and will be eligible for annual variable compensation. Mr. Scherr has served as Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs Bank USA since 2016 and is also Head of the Consumer & Commercial Banking Division. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1993 as an associate in the Financial Institutions Group. In 1996, he transferred to Emerging Markets/Capital Markets in the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division. Over the next several years, Mr. Scherr held a number of senior roles across the firm, including as Chief Operating Officer for IBD from 2005 to 2007, Global Head of the Financing Group from 2008 to 2014, Head of the Latin American business from 2011 to 2016 and the firm’s Chief Strategy Officer from 2014 to 2017. He was named a managing director in 2001 and a partner in 2002

Ms. Karen P. Seymour is the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, and Co-Head of the Legal Department since January 2018 of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Ms. Seymour has been an Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, and Head or Co-Head of the Legal Department since January 2018. From 2000 through January 2002 and 2005 through 2017, she was a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, a global law firm, including serving as a member of its management committee from April 2015 to December 2017, and as the co-managing partner of its litigation group from December 2012 to April 2015.

Mr. Dane E. Holmes is the Executive Vice President and Global Head of Human Capital Management since January 2018 of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Mr. Holmes is also the Global Head of Pine Street, our leadership development program, since 2016. He had previously served as Global Head of Investor Relations since 2007.

Mr. John F. W. Rogers is the Executive Vice President, Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Board of Directors of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Mr. Rogers has been an Executive Vice President of Goldman Sachs since April 2011 and Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Board of Directors of Goldman Sachs since November 2001. Mr. Rogers joined the firm in 1994 in the Fixed Income division and served in various positions from 1994 to 2001. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, he was a senior fellow at the Baker Institute at Rice University, having served as Under Secretary of State for Management at the U.S. Department of State from 1991 to 1993. From 1988 to 1991, he was Executive Vice President of the Oliver Carr Company and, prior to that, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1987 and Assistant to the President for Management and Administration from 1981 to 1985. Mr. Rogers is chairman of the boards of the Goldman Sachs Foundation and Goldman Sachs Gives.

Ms. Sarah G. Smith is the Executive Vice President and Global Head of Compliance since March 2017 of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Ms. Smith had previously served as Controller and Chief Accounting Officer since 2002.

Mr. Adebayo O. Ogunlesi is an Lead Independent Director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Since July 24, 2014. Mr. Ogunlesi is Chairman and Managing Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm that invests worldwide in infrastructure assets in the energy, transport and water and waste industry sectors (July 2006 – Present). Credit Suisse, a financial services company : Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Client Officer (2004 – 2006), Member of Executive Board and Management Committee (2002 – 2006), Head of Global Investment Banking Department (2002 – 2004), Head of Global Energy Group (1997 – 2002), Various positions (1983 – 1993). Attorney, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, a law firm headquartered in New York (1981 – 1983). His Other Professional Experience and Community Involvement: Chairman, Africa Finance Corporation, Member of Board of Trustees, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Member of National Board of Directors, The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Member of Advisory Board, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Member of Board of Directors, Partnership for New York City Fund, Member of Board of Directors, Americans for Oxford, Law Clerk to the Honorable Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1980-1981). Mr. Ogunlesi is a graduate of Oxford University, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School.

Mr. David A. Viniar is the Director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., effective January 31, 2013. Mr. Viniar served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (May 1999 – January 2013), Head of Operations, Technology, Finance and Services Division (December 2002 – January 2013), Head of the Finance Division and Co-head of Credit Risk Management and Advisory and Firmwide Risk (December 2001 – December 2002), Co-head of Operations, Finance and Resources (March 1999 – December 2001). He is the Former Trustee, Union College.

Dr. Drew G. Faust is Independent Director of the Company. In addition to serving as President, Dr. Faust served in various other roles during her career at Harvard, including as Founding Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study between 2001 and 2007. Previously, she also held a number of positions at the University of Pennsylvania between 1975 and 2000, including as the Annenberg Professor of History and the Director of the Women Studies Program. Dr. Faust currently serves on the Educational Advisory Board of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Antiquarian Society, Organization of American Historians, Society of American Historians and Southern Historical Association. She previously served on the boards of Staples, Inc., The Broad Institute and the Harvard Management Company. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, and received her master’s degree and doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Mark A. Flaherty is an Independent Director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc . Mr. Flaherty is retired from Wellington Management Company, an investment management company, where he served as vice chairman from 2011 to 2012, director of global investment services from 2002 to 2012 and partner and senior vice president from 2001 to 2012. Prior to joining Wellington, from 1991 to 1999 Mr. Flaherty worked at Standish, Ayer and Wood, an investment management company, serving variously over the course of his tenure as a director of equity trading, a partner and an executive committee member, and from 1987 to 1991 Mr. Flaherty served as director of equity trading at Aetna, a diversified healthcare benefit company. Mr. Flaherty is a member of the boards of trustees of Providence College and The Newman School. Mr. Flaherty is a graduate of Providence College.

Ms. Ellen J. Kullman is an Independent Director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Ms. Kullman retired as Chair and CEO of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in 2015, having served in those roles since 2009. In addition to serving as Chair and CEO, Ms. Kullman served in various other leadership roles during her over 25-year career at DuPont, including as President during 2008 and as an Executive Vice President between 2006 and 2008. Ms. Kullman joined DuPont in 1988. Ms. Kullman is currently on the Boards of Dell Technologies, Amgen Inc. and United Technologies Corporation. She serves as a trustee of Northwestern University, a member of the Board of Overseers of the Tufts University School of Engineering, and a member of the Business Council and of the National Academy of Engineering. She is a graduate of Tufts University, and received an MBA from Northwestern University.

Mr. Lakshmi Narayan Mittal is an Independent Director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Mr. Mittal has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (May 2008 – Present) and President and Chief Executive Officer (November 2006 – May 2008) for ArcelorMittal S.A., a steel company. He has also been the Chief Executive Officer, Mittal Steel Company N.V. (formerly the LNM Group) (1976 – November 2006). He has been the Member of International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, Advisory Board, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Board of Trustees, Cleveland Clinic, Member, Executive Committee, World Steel Association and Executive Board, Indian School of Business.

Mr. Peter C. Oppenheimer is an Independent Director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Mr. Oppenheimer is the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Apple, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of electronic devices and related software services. Prior becoming Chief Financial Officer at Apple, he was Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller from 2002 to 2004, and prior to that, from 1996 to 2002, he served first as Senior Director of Finance and Controller for the Americas, then as Vice President and Controller of Worldwide Sales and later as Vice President and Corporate Controller. Before joining Apple, from 1992 to 1996, Mr. Oppenheimer was the Divisional Chief Financial Officer of Finance, MIS, Administration and Equipment Leasing Portfolio at Automatic Data Processing, Inc., a leading provider of human capital management and integrated computing solutions, and prior to that, from 1988 to 1992, he was a consultant within the Information Technology Practice at Coopers & Lybrand, LLP. Mr. Oppenheimer is a member of the boards of the California Polytechnic State University Foundation and of the Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton, California. He is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University, and received an MBA from the University of Santa Clara.

Mr. Mark O. Winkelman is an Independent Director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Mr. Winkelman currently serves on the board of directors of Anheuser-Busch InBev, including on its audit and finance committees. Mr. Winkelman served as operating partner of J.C. Flowers & Co., a private investment firm focusing on the financial services industry, from 2006 to 2008. Mr. Winkelman also worked in various positions at Goldman Sachs, including as a member of the Management Committee, co-head of the fixed income division and head of the J. Aron Division, having joined the firm in 1978 and retired in 1994. Prior to that, Mr. Winkelman was a senior investment officer at The World Bank from 1974 to 1978. Mr. Winkelman serves as a trustee on the board of the University of Pennsylvania, and is chairman of the board of Penn Medicine. Mr. Winkelman is a graduate of Erasmus University in the Netherlands and received an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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